The siting of new wind turbines is carried out on the basis of an overall balancing of various factors such as wind speed, distance to nearest neighbours, noise and shadow, other technical installations, and regard for the landscape and nature. This balancing is brought about through the municipal wind turbine planning, which directly involves affected citizens, organisations, authorities, etc. The key principles for erecting wind turbines are wind conditions, distance to neighbours, and regard for specific affected interests, e.g. nature protection areas and areas of culturo-historical interest. Large and uniform landscapes will also usually be suitable for erecting large wind turbines. The reason for this is that the landscape matches the large dimensions because it is often characterised by flat or evenly sloping FigurE 4.2 Wind turbine in a technical landscape Birk Nielsen’s sketch shows the siting of MW wind turbines at Esbjerg Power Station. Wind turbine 2.3 MW Hub height 80 m Total height 126 m Esbjerg Power Station Building height 106 m Chimney 250 m Wind turbine 3.6 MW Hub height 90 m Total height 143.5 m wind turbines in denmark 15 terrain with large units of area and “landscape space”. Small-scale landscapes will often be less suitable for erecting large wind turbines. These landscapes are characterised by small hills or gentle slopes with less “landscape space”, where large wind turbines would contrast starkly with the nature of the landscape